Word: chatter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from great military leaders will he come, nor from great statesmen. Not from our leaders of affairs and our established politicians. He will be a dreamer who knows the highways to the fulfillment of dreams; and a wise man whose wisdom is beyond the shallow chatter of banks...
...both men and women for freedom from care and responsibility, and for passing pleasures rather than solid satisfaction." It cannot be denied that our indolent college life, with its short-cuts to pleasure, with the ease of spending an evening at the theatre or idling away an afternoon in chatter and smoke, is an open temptation to passing pleasures. We must be unusually strong if these wayside temptations do not lure us aside, leaving upon our characters the indelible imprint of a flabby character...
...Monthly could do anything, no matter how apparently insignificant, toward inducing only the men here at college to pay some attention to the really worth while thought that present conditions are occasioning, it would think the time--and the space--well spent. Of course, behind all exhortation and chatter lurks the doubt if young men--and especially young men in college--are really interested in what the world is doing...
Arthur Wilson in "Once from a Window" entertainingly describes an early spring dream of a very young bachelor and philosopher. The scene is among the roof tops surrounding Charles street jail. The heroine is seen but once and the "chatter of her blown hair" is "untranslatable...